Oracle Cloud Success Triggers Oracle-Derangement Syndrome

January 29, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Bob Evans.

A strong case can be made that Oracle has the widest, deepest, and most-modern set of cloud-computing solutions in the world. More than 10,000 paying customers are using the Oracle Cloud, and that extends out to 25,000,000 million individual users. Can any other IT vendor that claims to be a serious cloud-computing player—IBM, SAP, Salesforce.com, Amazon.com, etc.—match Oracle’s offering across not only cloud applications but also cloud infrastructure and cloud platforms?

Here’s a quick quiz:

  • Public cloud, private clouds, and hybrid clouds: how many companies other than Oracle offer that full range of cloud deployment models?
  • Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service: how many companies other than Oracle offer that full range of cloud services?…

  • A complete suite of cloud applications for all facets of your enterprise with advanced capabilities for social, BI, and mobile engineered in from the ground up: how many companies other than Oracle offer that full range of cloud applications and features?
  • For Oracle, the move into the cloud isn’t new, it isn’t trendy, and it isn’t tentative—CEO Larry Ellison began an aggressive move into the cloud 8 years ago with the Fusion Applications megaproject, which would allow customers to run Fusion apps either on-premise or in the cloud, interchangeably, with the same code base…

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